Repetitive skills like pattern recognition, information retrieval, optimization and planning are most vulnerable to automation. On the other hand, social and cognitive skills such as creativity, problem-solving, drawing conclusions about emotional states and social interactions are least vulnerable.
The most resilient competencies (those least likely to be displaced by AI) included critical thinking, teamwork, interpersonal skills, leadership and entrepreneurship.
Yuval Harari, a historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, described the rise of AI as a "cascade of ever-bigger disruptions" in higher education rather than a single event that settles into a new equilibrium. The unknown paths taken by AI will make it increasingly difficult to know what to teach students.
Perhaps we can all be employed as therapists, counseling each other about our feelings of irrelevance?
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Friday May 10 2019, @09:21PM (1 child)
For driving jobs it doesn't matter what car private people want to own. The companies only care about the bottom line, and when self-driving cars are cheaper than drivers, they will use them.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday May 10 2019, @09:54PM
I wasn't talking citizens thinking that's something they want to use. I was thinking citizens thinking that's something they even want to allow on their roads. At this moment, they're in DO NOT WANT mode.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.